com.sapportals.connector.metadata.functions

Interface ExtensibleMetadataFunction

All Superinterfaces:

IConnectorObject, IFunction, IGenericElement, ISOAPSerializable

public interface ExtensibleMetadataFunction
extends IFunction

An interface to a function that can hold extra metadata.

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface com.sapportals.connector.metadata.functions.IFunction

RECIEVE_FUNCTION, SEND_FUNCTION, SEND_RECIEVE_FUNCTION, UNKNOWN_TYPE_FUNCTION

Fields inherited from interface com.sapportals.connector.metadata.objects.IGenericElement

ATTRIBUTE, BUSINESS_OBJECT, BUSINESS_OBJECT_GROUP, FUNCTION, RELATION

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
<T> T	getProperty(String name, T def) Get the value of the given property name, or return a default value if not available The type of the returned value is determined by the given default value type.
void	setProperty(String name, Object value) Set the given value to the given property

Methods inherited from interface com.sapportals.connector.metadata.functions.IFunction

getExceptions, getFunctionType, getParameter, getParameters, getParameters

Methods inherited from interface com.sapportals.connector.metadata.objects.IGenericElement

getDescription, getElementType, getMetaType, getName, getNamespace, getUniqueName, retrieveTerm

Methods inherited from interface com.sapportals.connector.IConnectorObject

retrieveConnection

Method Detail

setProperty

void setProperty(String name,
                 Object value)

Set the given value to the given property

Parameters:

name - The name of the property

value - The value to set for the property

getProperty

<T> T getProperty(String name,
                  T def)
           throws ClassCastException

Get the value of the given property name, or return a default value if not available The type of the returned value is determined by the given default value type. If the type of the actual value does no match - a ClassCastException is thrown.

Type Parameters:

T - specified type of object

Parameters:

name - The name of the property

def - The default retrieved in case the actual property value could not be retrieved

Returns:

The value of the property for this instance, or the default value

Throws:

ClassCastException - if class cast is failed